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Q: removing a stray bootloader after installing Ubuntu on a USB drive

6:46 AM

I have Arch Linux installed on my computer at home, and I recently wanted to test some things out in Ubuntu. So I tried to install Ubuntu entirely on a USB drive, so that it wouldn't affect my Arch installation. In Ubuntu's installation process I chose Installation Type → Something else and in t...

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Q: restrict users to see the histroy

7:46 AM

I want to restrict the user to view the history. This task i am able to achieve through the steps mentioned in the below link. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18663078/disable-history-in-linux Now, as an admin of the i need to know the list of commands/scripts user executed. Is there any...

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Q: Error while updating unattended-upgrades

8:26 AM

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apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/46.6 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B o...

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Q: My GUI changed to Xfce4 after Xface4 installed

10:07 AM

I'm trying to support RDP on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS using xrdp. After xrdp and xfce4 package installed I restarted my system. My server was running Ubuntu Desktop 18.04(which uses gnome-desktop) but after system booted gnome-desktop was not started just like Ubuntu Server. So I executed startx comman...

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@DKBose Well it scares me to be honest, when they already fire a well received moderator for voicing critique what do they do with their user base if they voice critique. Like I said i have my own opinion on the gender matter which might not very popular.

So I keep my mouth shut, not because I'm ashamed of it no it is because I fear being chastised for it, and then there is the question where the tolerance is on this matter, which in my opinion is getting weighted in one direction instead of providing equality.

And I'm for sure not a person who not wishes everyone to live like he/she/it/they/apache attack helicopter wants.

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11:24 AM

@Videonauth I just posted an answer on renaming: Alternative terms for Men's and Women's T-shirts? The op wanted gender non-binary names. I voiced my opinion without attacking the group. I received one down vote and one up vote. Had I attacked the religion / cult (what's the right word?) I would have garnered many down votes and possibly suspension.

gender non binary name for t-shits == unisex

11:43 AM

@Videonauth I didn't explain it very well. Perhaps reading the question will make it clear. They want a new name for Men and a new name for Lady, recognizing they are manufactured for different body types (not Unisex which is same manufacturing process) without using the words Mens and Ladies.

@WinEunuuchs2Unix O.k. this makes me wanna run against a wall

I have to admit i have a hard time wrapping my head around the concept of non-binary genders. But there we should really ask ourselves, is this really necessary? I mean they produce T-shirts fit for the female body form and for the male body form, does renaming it really make a difference that they still fit for binary body types and we only have those two body types biologically

regardless of our believs and sexuallity orientations

@Videonauth Haha you don't have to. The trumpets of Jericho are already blaring and the walls are crashing down on us :)

Well time to run off to work (you remember what that is right? :)) have a great day in chat / stack exchange sites!

Don't get me wrong, I have many friends who identify themselves as non-binary or have divverent sexual orientations and I deeply respect and value them. But the not chastise me when i refer to them as he / she as they know i mean no harm. I think people should calm down a bit and reread what tolerance and equality really means. In the end it simply matters that they are happy whatever they indentify as.

That were all happy and without envy and hatred.

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Q: How to structure my Ubuntu installation and partitioning on SSD + HDD system

1:08 PM

I have a laptop with 128GB SSD and 1TB HDD. I want to optimize my installation and plan for good partitioning. I have 16GB of RAM and I believe that is more than enough for my development work and I don't need a swap partition. I've been reading a lot of articles with different opinions on how ...

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1:57 PM

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Q: Guidance does not exist here

So I have a problem with my VirtualBox Windows 7 64 guest. It seems that it does not recognize the GPU. While researching the problem I cam across this post .... Enable CUDA GPU working under VM ... underneath the post is a message about this post being a duplicate and that the answer is elsewhe...

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DK Bose

2:53 PM

Apropos nothing at all, I've bookmarked this link just in case!

yeah this one is/was a good read

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Q: Unable to locate package `docker-ce` on a Ubuntu Cloud 18.04 LTS

5:49 PM

I'm trying to install Docker on a Ubuntu Cloud 18.04 LTS following official installation docs. On another Ubuntu 18.04 installation everything works fine, but it is a Ubuntu Workstaion 18.04. On a cloud version I've got error "Package 'docker-ce' has no installation candidate" after executing sud...

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Q: Ubuntu 18.04, networking static routing

6:30 PM

I need to set up a small computing cluster consisting of 4 computing nodes (4x ubuntu 18.04). I have a problem creating a connection from workers to the WAN. All computers has static ip 10.1.1.X(1-4), where the head node (10.1.1.1) has also additional NIC connected to the other network (192.168.X...

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Q: Mouse left click not working in Ubuntu 16.04

7:10 PM

I know this is an old problem. I have tried different solutions but only the ctrl-alt-F1 and ctrl-alt-F7 worked. In a working day, I have to do that hundreds of times. What is the cause of this? Is there a better way to fix it by now? I saw similar post on Ubuntu 18.04. So upgrade seem to have n...

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Q: total in the output of ls -l command

8:30 PM

I know that total tells the number of 1K blocks used by the files in directory i am working on. For some purpose i entered the command ls -lh to see this in human readable form, i saw the blocksize of all the files in the directory but to my surprise when i added the blocksize of all the files in...

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Q: Trouble Connecting to Wi-Fi Via GUI

9:51 PM

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I am having a small issue with my Wi-Fi adapter. It seems that the GUI interface is struggling to connect, so it does not automatically connect when I start the system. In order to connect, I have to open a command-line shell & execute the following command: $ sudo iw dev <device_name> connect <...

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